Peter Shackleton

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Biography

Recently appointed Musician-in-Residence at
Wilfrid Laurier University, clarinettist Peter Shackleton currently holds the
principal clarinet chair with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, and is
a member of Music in Common , the Aeolian Winds, and the internationally
acclaimed ensemble Tafelmusik, with whom he has performed and recorded on
historical clarinet in Canada, Japan and throughout Europe. He has served
as principal clarinettist of Orchestra London Canada, and has performed with
Les Violons du Roy ( including a performance of the Mozart Requiem at Lincoln
Center, New York, in the days following the 9/11 tragedy), as well as
with the Milwaukee Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and
Stratford Festival Orchestras. Peter is also a faculty member at the
University of Western Ontario, and has held teaching positions at Duquesne
University (Pittsburgh) and Lakehead University (Thunder Bay).

In 1993, he was awarded First Prize at the
27th CBC Radio Competition and has since performed as a soloist with the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra
(Vancouver), the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and Tafelmusik. Peter
received his Honours Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University and a
certificate in Chamber Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee. His principal teachers include Robert Marcellus, Russell
Dagon, Clark Brody and Donald Montanaro.